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The Global Commission on Drug Policy, a group made up of former presidents and politicians, is calling for less emphasis on punishment and more on treatment while still targeting criminal drug gang operations.

July 2, 2008, Wednesday

DURING the 1990's, only one president of a country in the Americas was overthrown in a coup: Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, who was toppled by his military in 1991 and was granted exile in the United States. Since 2000, however, six elected heads...

April 4, 2004, Sunday

Latin America's largest nation embarked on an ambitious political and social experiment today, as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leader of the left-wing Workers Party and a former lathe operator and labor union leader, was inaugurated here as president...

January 2, 2003, Thursday

When Fernando Henrique Cardoso leaves office on Wednesday, it will mark the first time in more than 40 years that one elected civilian president here has handed over power to another. Mr. Cardoso thus ends as he began eight years ago: serving as...

December 29, 2002, Sunday

In a show of support for Venezuela's embattled president, Hugo Chávez, the Brazilian government has sent an emergency shipment of 520,000 barrels of gasoline to help relieve shortages caused by a nationwide general strike now in its fourth week,...

December 27, 2002, Friday

The Brazilian government is about to spend nearly $700 million on a fleet of jet fighters, but the government leaving office at the end of the year and the one soon to replace it seem unable to agree who should decide what plane to buy. The outcome...

November 29, 2002, Friday

Less than a week after Brazilian markets received a much-needed shot of confidence from a $30 billion International Monetary Fund loan package to the country, fears over Brazil's economic prospects dragged down stock and bond prices and the...

August 14, 2002, Wednesday

Brazil and other Latin American governments have followed Washington down the free-market path, only to find they are now losing control over their economies. The immediate consequences are most visible here in Brazil, which is in the midst of an...